No time for software testing now: GSTN chairman Navin Kumar
We are very, very stressed now. We are working 28 hours a day, says Navin Kumar Latest news : A week ahead of the goods and services tax (GST) roll-out, a visibly stressed chairman of the G ST Network (GSTN), NAVIN KUMAR, says that it (the IT backbone of the GST) will be ready by July 15. Although confident of the software, Kumar tells Dilasha Seth it will stabilise over three-four months from the GST introduction. Edited excerpts: With a week to go for the roll-out, what are the thoughts on this? Are you nervous? We are very, very stressed now. We are working 28 hours a day. Are you being flooded with calls and messages from industry and traders? Industry generally talks to the government, but, yes, we keep getting tweets and messages. There was some problem when enrolment was on and the tax department cancelled a lot of registered service taxpayers that had got provisional IDs as they were apparently not active. These 50-60 people lined up at our office. We then refe...